More maccas

Lena Ching has been ripping at every spot.  Here she is pulling a carve on perfect Maccas!  Tomorrow is coming up so everyone is getting more excited!

Mentawai diary day 7

Day 7 we are scoring perfect Macaronies!  Cecile Kim is taking off into this perfect left and loving every minute of it!  There are no crowds whatsoever so our group is very happy!  Sorry I didn't have time to download all my photos yet so had to take a snap of my camera.  Waves are going off!

Mentawai diary day 6

We made down to Sikakap village to fill water on day 6 and it was a cultural experience for our group. These children follow you all over and ask you what's your name?  Where you from?  How many surfboards you have?  Then once they get to know you they ask, "Can you give me one board?" Or can you give me money?  Here Lena was trying to be polite by saying no more money.

Massage

Kekoa Mau and Lena Ching were first in line and ready to unwind their tweaked bodies.  $20/hour massage can't go wrong! Internet use is $12/hour so gotta make use of the opportunity to update my blog and check the waves. So far we have been scoring big time with no other boats in sight.

Mentawai diary day 5

After 5 days of surfing hard our group was ready for a land tour.  So we headed in to Maccaronies resort and got some R & R.

Mentawai Diary day 1-4

Well we finally got internet connection!  We made it out to the Mentawai Islands on time and it was such a smooth ride out on board the Naga Laut we couldn’t believe it!  Light winds and calm seas made for a calm crossing that put us all to sleep. 

We eat 3-4 meals a day and talk story around this table and everyone is happy!

As far as the surf it doesn’t get any better than this…Absolutely no crowds and perfect waves like this!  What can we say?  Score!  Lances Rights got some nice waves and surfing with the local villagers instead of team riders from around the world is such a treat.  We surf this spot by ourselves a few times already so moved on to Lances Left and got this! Brad dropping in on a bomb set and after 6 hours of surfing he is going to move here I think?  Every day he is telling me that this is the “Best day ever!”

Imagine solid double overhead and nobody but us!  Wake me up I’m dreaming:)

 James Oshiro also showing us how to do it. All those days at the office is paying off big time.

Did some diving also and shot a nice dogtooth tuna all on film!

Fishing is awesome!  Put on my Gaji lure and Bam!  Al reeled in this huge sailfish that has been providing us pupus for days.  Its only day 4 and everyone is surfed out!  Tomorrow we surf Macaronies and can’t wait to surf the most rippable wave on this planetJ Good Night!

Jakarta airport

We made it to Jakarta and waiting for next flight to Padang. Not much to do but hurry up and wait.